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this is bbc news. j ‘ somebody is failed, and hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other the headlines at 11:00pm: side so it's complete exoneration, the mueller report says there is no evidence of the trump campaign colluding with russia over no collusion, no obstruction. senior conservatives have been the 2016 us election. holding talks with theresa may at her chequers country retreat on how to deliver brexit — as ministers touted as possible this was an illegal take down, that replacements defended her. a 54—year—old shop worker has been stabbed to death failed. and hopefully somebody‘s in north—west london — following a robbery earlier this morning. going to be looking at the other police say the till was stolen side, so its complete exoneration, from the newsagents in pinner. a cruise liner that ran no collusion, no obstruction. into trouble off the coast of norway has reached port, senior conservatives have been after hundreds of passengers holding talks with theresa may were winched to safety. at her chequers country retreat on how to deliver brexit, as ministers touted as possible replacements defended her. it's not the time to change the captain of the ship. i think what we need to do is to chart the right course, and the prime minister has charted that right course by hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are home affairs editor for the evening standard, martin bentham, and playwright and columnist for the new european newspaper, bonnie greer. we've got quite a few of the front pages in so let's start off with the telegraph which leads with boris johnson, who has been writing in the paper. in it he says says theresa may must channel the spirit of moses , abandon her deal, and come out of the eu now. the ft claims that theresa may fended off a challenge to her leadership this weekend but struggled to win over some of her most ardent conservative opponents. the sun has a full page spash on the pm and brexit, in which it calls on theresa may to resign if she wants to deliver brexit. the guardian says it has evidence that more than a dozen conservative councillors — who were suspended for posting islamophobic
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or racist content online — have had their membership reinstated. the daily mail reports on new figures that reveal children as young as nine are being admitted to hospital with severe disorders caused by cannabis. finally, the mirror leads with a story that benefit cuts are driving some mums to baby banks, not food banks, but baby banks, that hand out free nappies. that's a quick look through some of the front pages. let's ta ke through some of the front pages. let's take a more in—depth look. shall we start off with the sun? an editorial, full—page editorial, on their front editorial, full—page editorial, on theirfront page. editorial, full—page editorial, on their front page. yes, not holding back, as you might expect. but what it is saying here is, you can read it is saying here is, you can read it yourselves, time is up, theresa, and say what needs to happen is theresa may needs to make clear she will resign the moment a deal,
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particularly her deal, is past and this goes to the argument that thick word a significant number of people on the brexit side don't trust the prime minister to be able to deliver a satisfactory future arrangement with the eu, once we've actually left, so we have the withdrawal agreement, assuming that gets through which is a big assumption, and if that gets through then we need to negotiate the new arrangements with the eu as to how we are going to deal with them and liaise with them in a future or not and that framework, the brexiteer side clearly want to have somebody else that they believe is much more robust, much more on their side in charge, and so the thesis is and what the sun is arguing here is she should stand down, that would give enough people confidence that it's worth voting for the withdrawal agreement because the bigger prize isa agreement because the bigger prize is a better future arrangement with the eu than might otherwise happen.
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it's a principled step? we were talking about this before we came on and martin helped me to understand that, you know, at the end of the day we are caught up in conservative party management. this is a tragedy, actually, because this is much bigger than the tories and whether they can hold themselves together, and this is actually what this is about. she needs, whatever she is going to do, she needs to go ahead and do it and most people i think don't really understand all of the sort of connection is going on within the conservative party because this is about the conservative party. they are allowed things on the table, things that need to be done, and today, she had some sort of meeting at chequers. i think the majority of the people who we re think the majority of the people who were there with the erg, who seem to be actually running the country at the moment, and their little demands are actually fuelling this whole thing. it's actually, it's a tragedy, it's really a tragedy. i don't have any sort of, i don't have
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a lot of respect for theresa may, i'll tell you that, but the fact we are being thrown under the bus by this conservative party is really what needs to be talked about. do you think part of the problem is that she never really truly, a lot of people say, believed in brexit in the first place? she probably didn't. she voted remain although i was at the one speech she gave during the referendum campaign and it was quite a negative speech and it was quite a negative speech and it was quite a negative speech and it was almost surprising she came out and said at the end of it that she was backing remain, so she clearly wasn't a brexit voter and so on, although the sun here, which clearly is a brexit supporting newspaper makes the point and pays tribute to her as a public servant and the efforts she is made up so on, and makes the point that she's tried to respect the referendum, as it says unlike so many others, so from that point of view they are not arguing she hasn't tried to deliver. i think the problem is we'll talk
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about the boris johnson type argument ina about the boris johnson type argument in a minute when we come to the telegraph, but the theory is at least that she is not, that she's not actually have the guts in the end face down the eu and to be a bit tougher in the negotiations. a of people would disagree with that, but it's an argument put by people who don't like what she's done on the other thing is from a tactical point of view, like this week with her speech outside downing street, she seems to have alienated people who might have supported her, so people who want a softer brexit saying she's not come across to us, not tried to negotiate with us, not tried to negotiate with us, not tried to negotiate with us, not tried to engage is at all and so both on the brexit side, where they think ultimately she hasn't had the strength to stand up and to be robust a berth in the negotiations, and on the other side, on the remain side, there's not enough attempt to bring those people on board. the uk never had any cards on the table. this is what the erg doesn't want to deal with. we other supplicants. we
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haven't, we are the supplicants. it depends on your view. we are, the uk wa nts to depends on your view. we are, the uk wants to leave, it's not the eu wa nts to wants to leave, it's not the eu wants to leave, it's not the eu wants to leave the uk, so the cards are not equal on the table. i don't have any brief for her at all, i'm not saying i do, but i think the false sort of notion that the erg puts out there that somehow the united kingdom is in a position to outbid, out beat and out—gun 27 other countries, that's the problem. let's turn to the daily telegraph because we are sticking with brexit so we can continue because we are sticking with brexit so we can continue this conversation. what did you make of this when you first saw it? moses.|j said to martin and to you, remember, moses didn't get there, moses didn't get to the promised land, so why he's using is bizarre. i suppose this is boris, his rhetorical, oratorical powers, churchillian heights to make people feel we are
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in one of those finest hour moments and it's not helpful because it's not realistic. it's not realistic about the position that the nation is in and the relation to the eu and that's what's important right now. if it's going to happen it has to happen ina if it's going to happen it has to happen in a way that's going to benefit the country and benefit our standing in the world, frankly at this moment in time, which isn't good. this goes back to the point i was making for the brexit side, boris says here we've blinked, we bottled it completely, that's the argument now, a lot of people would disagree with that as you are making the point a lot of people would say that was never realistic approach anyway, but that's obviously the division of opinion. the only thing i would say is here, what boris says when he in this column he's written in the telegraph as he does every monday, he basically says if theresa may can't get her deal through which again still looks improbable at this
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stage, extending the implementation period to the end of 2021, use it to negotiate a free—trade deal, pay the fee but come out of the eu now, the problem with that is it all sounds sensible because of course the big problem is that we've got to have, to implement a transition period, you've got to have a withdrawal agreement. actually the ideal thing would be to have a transition period so we would be to have a transition period so we could work out the future arrangement and so on but the problem is you can't have that so therefore you can't forget the backstop because that's where the big sticking point is for say this is the fairy tale business, the fact is the fairy tale business, the fact is there are elections coming up and the eu, they've washed their hands of this thing practically so now they've got to actually face elections in may. what's this country going to do in relation to that? that's one of their arguments, that? that's one of their arguments, that we have to set up meps in order to face the elections. what going to happen? can i bring this back, it
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ties in with the next paper, the metro, the headline is the pm makes the brexiteers to back her. are you both aware of what exactly is going to be on the table in terms of all these votes and motions and amendments that are coming. you know all of them! nobody knows everything! there are about seven of them! what's going to happen this week is there is potential her deal will come back in some shape or form potentially, but the first thing that's going to happen is she's going to sit down tomorrow with the cabinet and talk about the various what i called indicative motions that are going to come to parliament probably on wednesday and those will be one that sets out, parliament will vote on the range of possible options which could include her deal, could include a referendum, revoking article 50 and various other different scenarios. sort of
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norway type deal and so on. idea of thatis norway type deal and so on. idea of that is festival, from her point of view i think because some of those will be unpalatable to the brexit side and may be other sides as well, that again will concentrate minds and make people finally come on board her deal, that's one thing. 0bviously board her deal, that's one thing. obviously if that doesn't happen that you get to the position of parliament having passed these indicative motions. now they theoretically are not binding but then what the back secretary stephen barclay has said today, if you get toa barclay has said today, if you get to a situation where parliament has voted in one of these indicative motions for something which is contrary to what the government wa nts for contrary to what the government wants for example, to have a second referendum, orsomething wants for example, to have a second referendum, or something of that sort, that that could then potentially lead to a general election. so the stakes are massively high and it's all going to... this happens in a week. bonnie, the next story, the
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telegraph has this line in, the latest, the breaking news from america concerning the mueller report. is it mueller? the correct pronunciation is mueller. is this it for pronunciation is mueller. is this it foertrump? pronunciation is mueller. is this it for mr trump? well, the special investigation was to investigate collusion in the campaign with russia, with the trump campaign and russian government, and they came to the conclusion that that did not happen. in fact the words are something like no american persons we re something like no american persons were involved, so he's clear, that's clear. the second part of it is more problematic for him is that the special counsel also said that he could not exonerate the president on obstruction ofjustice. what does
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that mean? what it means is the president of the united states, he can't say the president did not obstructjustice, he can't say the president did not obstruct justice, he can't can't say the president did not obstructjustice, he can't say it, he can't say he did, he can't say he didn't. mainly he can't say it is because trump did not sit down and have a face—to—face, so he can't, he couldn't determine trump's state of mind when he made all of those public pronouncements about this and that. he needed to do that but he did feel as a legal officer that he cannot legally say that the president of the united states did not obstructjustice. the problem for trump is of course he's master of the medium so he'll wipe it all out, the problem is the house judiciary committee's job is oversight, that little word, the president is not exonerated, is a little green light for them to actually, if they want, to see the materials that the special counsel had which would not allow him to do that. we've had reaction from nancy
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pelosi. what did she say? one of the strongest women in america. she say not good enough, we need to see material and the evidence matching whatjenny nadler said.|j material and the evidence matching what jenny nadler said. i want to stress to the uk audiences, this is the job of the house, this is their constitutional responsibility, and if the special counsel, the justice department, the president's justice department, if the special counsel says i cannot exonerate the president you can either let it go, or you can investigate it and they choose to investigate it. martin, what did you make of this? well, obviously i'm not as close to it as people in america are and so on but it seems to me that first of all the most serious thing by far is the idea of collusion with the russians and people could understand that, if that had been found to be something he'd be doing, that would have been absolutely catastrophic for him so the fact he hasn't had that found against him, he's been exonerated
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for that, is a very big victory for him, isn't it? the second issue about obstructing justice is a serious issue for a president, or any major politician to be doing that. on the other hand clearly it sta rts that. on the other hand clearly it starts getting into the realms, doesn't it, and i would have thought from this aside at least that it sta rts from this aside at least that it starts getting into the realms of a very detailed argument about process , very detailed argument about process, what exactly happened, what did happen, and a lot of people will slightly glaze over. they won't, we'll say why they don't at 11:30pm because we've got our second addition of the papers at 11:30pm. this is a huge story, everybody is talking about it, 11:30pm is the next hit. i hope you canjoin us for that. in the meantime, on bbc news, it's click.
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drones could transform our skies as we know them, making deliveries, watching over us and even saving lives. but as recent flight disruptions have taught us, there are also possible downsides from unwanted ones. last december, here at gatwick airport, chaos ensued. after reports of repeated drone sightings, a thousand flights were disrupted, 140,000 passengers affected and all of this was said to add up to a cost of £50 million.
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soon after, there was a similar scare at heathrow as well as at newark airport in the us. but how do we take down problem drones safely? well, dan simmons has been to the netherlands where the national police force is sponsoring a competition that hopes to find new ways of doing just that. in a hangar in the middle of nowhere in the netherlands. an epic air battle is about to commence. nine teams from across europe and america are trying to smash each other out of the sky and grab the 30,000 euros top prize in the title of the 2019 drone clash champions. all they have to do is down the opposition‘s queen drone. but the organisers have not made it easy. this is one of the arenas that one
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of the teams will start from, blue and red are the colours. they will leave their queen in here and that is what the opposing team will have to try to knock out but they will leave their queen here. their fighter drones will come through what is called the corridor of death, doom and destruction and a tesla coil behind me, waiting to knock out one of those fighter drones that gets too close. c02 gas pumps here firing at those drones as they come around the corner. they've got to get past this tennis ball machine which is going to fire balls. there is going to be a man with a gun that fires a net through this hole to try to take out those drones if they come round. lights will be flushing to try to blind the pilots but once they get down this corridor of doom, death and destruction, they get to their opponent's arena and a chance to take out the queen. with all this destruction of kit going on, it's perhaps surprising
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no—one is called the cops but that's because they are the ones sponsoring the event. in this contest, we hope to come across new creative ideas that we can adapt and use in our police matters. do you have your own ability to bring a drone down? actually we were hoping to see new strategies to help us bringing drones down but i did see also new threats because perhaps you noticed, there are a lot of drones that carry some sort of ball around them and some of the measures we take, it's attacking the rotors. the rotors are now protected by these balls so it actually poses us with another problem. enter a sideshow that involves this tiny drone. most have three or four faces
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so quick repairs are needed. so we're just fixing our drones. they got a little bit mangled in the last competition. this is actually already flattened again. how do you flatten it? she stands on them. you stand on them? our primary strategy was to use brute force which is why we have this gigantic machine. motors get hit, it can fly without. if six gets damaged, it can still fly which we thought was amazing, however as you can see right now, it is missing stabilisation, this is quite broken. but perhaps overall the event showed the human flying skills on show were often the deciding factor. it looks so easy because they are so adept at it. your brain does somersaults and it's flicking back the other way and it's all bonkers and the speed with which those drones, they are flying over my head now, the speed with which they make decisions and flips and reverse isjust nuts. this is an airborne version of robot wars. my kids know nothing of robot wars but they will know about this.
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both my boys have drones so aerial battling drones, it doesn't get any better. there is a tesla coil in there, for god's sake. 0n the fringes of the battlefield, companies in the growing business of taking down drones were showing off their solutions. this system is already operating at a norwegian airport. it tracks and then identifies drones as a threat before jamming the frequencies used to control them. in a usual environment, when you jam the drone, it will either start hovering and go back to his sender, his operator or it will go down eventually on the battery. it can also jam the global positioning system. the drone will start hovering around, flying around because it doesn't know where it is and eventually it will go down also on its battery. this beast is the drone catcher, making use of radar systems already in the field to get its targets' real—time 3d co—ordinates before
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automatically flying to the area and lining up its prey. we shoot the net over the drone. we can carry it away with a wire and drop it down with a parachute. and then there is this. the gun emits a powerful electromagnetic beam, knocking out the command and control, video link and gps frequencies used by the drone. strict regulations in europe mean it can't be used here but its dutch makers told me they are doing good business with governments in the middle east. back in the arena, and the final was under way. in the end, it came down to brute force and battery power, with belgium's team slunse flying away with the 30k prize. the dutch authorities certainly have a more entertaining way of learning how to down rogue drones than standing around and scratching their heads.
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now, in some parts of the world it has become pretty commonplace for kids to learn to code, but for those with vision problems, it is still fairly inaccessible so we sent paul carter to find out what some of the big tech companies are doing to try and open up coding to children who are blind or partially sighted. and then what happens? i'm just having a word with this naughty pod. oh, yes. it's trying to run away. this is eight—year—old ellie. like many other children her age she is learning how to code. she also happens to be blind. do you have it on the one you want to happen first? yeah. ellie is using a physical, tactile coding language called codejumper. developed by microsoft, it is a block—based modular system consisting of a series of pods. each of which contains a single line of code, making up a story, a poem or in this case, a song. # row, row, row your boat
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gently down the stream, life is but a dream. ..# coding is by its nature a visual medium and often requires being able to see the whole picture. what makes code jumper unique is that it allows blind and partially sighted children to have an overview of their code with their hands. the woman leading the project is cecily morrison, a computer scientist at microsoft's cambridge research laboratory, who herself has a blind son. for blind and no—vision children specifically, the technologies that were available were not accessible to them, so many children now learn programming, starting at the age of seven, with block—base languages. the other aspect that we should not forget about is that we created this to be available to children regardless of their level of vision so that means that it is available to children who are blind with no vision, it's equally available for children who are sighted. that is one of the things
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that we were very aware of, is that we did not want to create a technology that isolated the blind or low—vision child at the back of the class, in a different classroom, doing their own thing. we wanted something they could engage with other children, encode together. but codejumper is only one solution to the issue of getting children with vision impairment to coding. some of you are new to apple ipad accessibility and coding so today we're going to run a session... at linden lodge, a school for children with sensory impairments in south london, i went to see how apple have been working with the royal national institute for blind people, to increase access to its own popular coding education app, called swift playgrounds. apple is using its suite of accessibility tools already built into its i0s devices such as, voice—over, high contrast and large text in conjunction with much more old school assistive tech.
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it says go here, go here, go here. and that is where it is. they have created braille and tactile maps for each level of the app so blind children can navigate the whole screen area with their hands. there's clearly still a role for tactile maps and for images, and diagrams. yeah, i think it is a healthy kind of dynamic mix of old and new and perhaps some experimentation as well. the children here are using swift playground to create code that will make a small drone fly. you know, it is incredible. i think it's a moment when will say things like, "i did not think i would ever be able to do this." "this is awesome," "i want to do this for a career." that is fantastic, and it is contagious , other kids pick up on that and think "maybe i can do that too." "i didn't know that those tools were accessible, i'll go in see if i can create
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something" and then they show one of their peers and before you know it you've got lots of people interested — that is what we want to do, just kind of spread the magic, show what is possible to do and make sure that inclusion is at the heart of the development process. applause. that's it for the short version of this week's click. the full programme can be found on the bbc iplayer, and if you want to keep up with the team throughout the weekend, you can find us on facebook, instagram and twitter @bbcclick. we will be back next week. hello there. it was a glorious sunday across much of england and wales,
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plenty of sunshine, light winds too, but a different story across scotland, parts of northern ireland. stronger winds here, particularly across the north of scotland, with lots of showers, but high pressure will be building in, so the winds will be gradually getting lighter across northern, north east areas as the night wears on, taking the showers away too. so most places will be dry. lengthy, clear spells, so again it's going to be quite chilly by the end of the night through central and northern areas. temperatures no lower than four to six degrees across the south. we start monday off on a cool note, but dry, bright. plenty of sunshine around, lighter winds too. we'll have this warm front moving into scotland, so that will bring thicker cloud at times, a few showery bursts of rain, but it will be a slightly milder day across scotland, ten, maybe 11 degrees. across the south and south—east, 13 celsius, a glorious afternoon. throughout much of next week high pressure dominates the scene, we will be tapping in some drier air off the near continent, so we should see quite a bit of sunshine through next week, and temperatures will respond, turning very mild in places by the end of the week.
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